Does the Lumia 925 have a notification LED? No, but...

We've seen some questions appear on the Internet surrounding the little red light that's barely visible on the Lumia 925. We've attempted to capture the light on camera, but it's too dim to really show up. Hopefully the above image will give you an idea where this mysterious element resides on the Nokia flagship. Could this be a notification LED? Or has Nokia implemented some magical technology that no one can yet comprehend?

Unfortunately, we have to reveal that this light is in fact not an LED for notifications. What you're looking at is indeed the proximity sensor. That's right, you'll see this little beauty when glance screen is currently active or if you're in a call. Try it out for yourself: turn your Lumia 925 display off, allowing glance screen to kick in. Notice the little red light next to the camera? Now place (or hover) your hand over this light and your screen will completely turn off.

Taking your hand away should wake up glance screen once again. Try this in a call too, put your hand over the light when a call is active and the display will turn off, remove your hand and the screen comes back to life. You can even carry this action out with some speed to tease and play with the sensor, expereincing a light show in front of your eyes. You're witnessing magic at work!

So no, the Nokia Lumia 925 does not sport a notification LED. Sorry, folks.

Why doesn´t microsoft does what we suggested on suggestion box put the windows hardware button blink when we have notifications it an LED so its the best notification LED, make it happen why do we need another we allready have it just programme it for god sake!

1. Saying the light is a proximity sensor is PARTIALLY true. This is an infrared LED that emits light for the sensor to detect proximity based on reflection. If you take an infrared light and shine it into the sensor, the screen will turn off.

2. The Samsung focus and most phones have the same light and sensor configuration. They usually only come on during a phone call though and we typically don't notice them, but the dim red light is quite common.

Okay, out of topic, but interesting:
I can't say how many people know this, bur your camera can detect infrared light. To see this, send something using infrared from your cellphone (I know there's no infrared on devices nowadays, so boot up that old Nokia N95 or N73 lying in your drawer) and switch on your camera and watch the infrared port through it. You'll see blinking bluish light. Interesting, huh? ;-)

I'm afraid "waking up" the CPU/GPU to control the screen is way to power consuming to efficiently use the screen as a notification LED.
Anywho, all my older phones - Nokia E50, Blackberry Bold, HTC Mozart (WP7) - had green/red notification LEDs and it was really handy. I can't understand why suddenly all OEMs dropped such a useful feature.

you don't need to concentrate on a windows logo as a notification light, when you actually have all the display to show anything (on AMOLED screen, as on that one only the lit pixels are consuming energy) - anyone remembering NOKIA SLEEPING SCREEN app on symbian?

Man someone up their just made a really awesome point .. Why doesnt the Windows logo sort of glow (fade in / ease out) slowly when you have notifications ... that would be really really nice .. if you ask me :/

With some modifications from guys at HTC, this can be a real notifications light which is in my opinion is very useful.
I'm not so sure about the possibility of making this happen but I can't see why not...

Now it is indeed only used for battery notification. But the led isn't really noticeable from a distance, so for a notification led it isn't really great. It also can only show green and red. Start button would be much nicer as notification led.

Go to the website and make the suggestion; I did. Also ask that their next WP not be a knock off of the One, but a 5" 8X as its design is better than any other right now outside of button feedback & battery life. I love the way it appears to be all screen and the matte polycarbonate body is perfect along with its supreme thinness'. All they need is proper advertisement along with apps. I also expressed that to them.

This is really old, my HTC 8X does it too. But it's really nice how wp8 uses the sensor! When you've a message and it is in your pocket, the screen won't light up. And if you grab the phone out of your pocket within like one minute after the message, the screen automatically turns on. Never seen another OS doing such thing.

I had it too on my LG Optimus 7. WP7 was already a great OS. WP8 is amazing but on the other side it is still missing (really basic) features and there are a lot of bugs. I hope that 'other' is fixed in GDR2...

The 920 and 925 are capable of it at least, but I'm sure other (even HTC and Samsung) devices have the hardware capabilities too, per some sort of secret Microsoft request to enable the feature EVENTUALLY... (Much like FM radio.)

Yes, I would argue that it's almost a scandal if they don't do this. A phone with lots of LEDs but no notifications? Perhaps it hasn't been enabled since there is no notification center yet. Hard to imagine that a notification center would arrive and not be tied to the existing LEDs. Also these lights are on now at full blast at night when the phone is charging on my stand. Shining me right in the face when I sleep. That cannot be right either.